Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miles of the city, as thousands of Serbs fled. The advance came afterSerbs reneged on an agreementto stop attacks on Bosnia's Bihac enclave. U.N. officials urged restraint, fearing that fighting in Croatia could lead to a widening of the war and possibly cause the well-armed forces from Yugoslavia to enter the war. Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic insisted his country had not yet decided to try to retake territory gained by rebel Croatian Serb forces in 1991. But Croatia appears ready to do just that, with a massive military buildup on its own territory north ofSerb holdingsalong with...
...President Clinton and the international community, Senate Republicans this evening neared passage of a vote to lift the U.S. arms embargo on Bosnia. The move, approved in the House earlier this year, would be an affront to Clinton and the U.N. Security Council, which imposedthe arms embargoon the former Yugoslavia in 1991, hoping to prevent an escalation ofthe fighting in the Balkans. Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole, who at Clinton's request delayed action last week to await the results of the NATO allies conference in London, argued on the Senate floor that the embargo merely established a built-in military...
...interview published in TIME last week, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic offered his services as a Balkan peace broker, promising to bring the Bosnian Serbs closer to a deal, provided U.N.-imposed sanctions against Yugoslavia are lifted. The proposal made no waves in Washington, since it recycled ideas that had been rejected by the U.S. Then hard on the heels of the capture of Srebrenica by the Bosnian Serb army, Time has learned, Carl Bildt, the peace negotiator for the European Union, presented Milosevic with a number of ideas that might make a deal more palatable all around, including...
Beyond that, Milosevic is reportedly willing to accept a step-by-step suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, with progress dependent on compliance -- a suspend-comply-lift scenario keyed to the gradual implementation of the Bosnia peace plan. In the first phase, strategic materials would stay on the sanctions list, with the exception of an annual quota of allowed oil imports. The time frame for review remains under discussion, with Milosevic insisting on at least a year between compliance assessments. Whatever the interval, the Bildt concepts are said to insist that sanctions will be reimposed should Belgrade evade its commitments...
Milosevic insists that the U.S., along with Serbia, oversee the Balkan peace process, a reflection of his conviction that the Europeans either lack the leadership clout or have too many conflicting interests in the former Yugoslavia to impose a settlement, and that the U.N. is too weak to do so. Can he deliver on his part of any bargain? Possibly, but he will need time to bring the Bosnian Serbs into line and convince Serbs in general that he is not selling out their cause. "Like it or not, there's nothing else out there," says an insider in Belgrade...